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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER PEPPARO SERVICE August 1, 1928. Associated Beehive Seed Growers 0 f The Uintah Basin At This Time of Year Fall is only a few weeks This if the first day of August. away. Many Uintah Basin Seed Growers are confronted with several pressing problems. Most growers have some problems that they know about and some grower's have problems that they do not even know of. Is Your r Second-cro- Seed Going to Mature? p The answer to this question depends on so many considerations that we had best look them over. FIBST Experience shows that after alfalfa seed is pretty well set on the second cutting, it usually is ready to cut in from days. It may ripen a little taster where the forty to forty-fiv- e ground is dry and the stems short and woody, and it may take a little longer if the ground is wet or the alfalfa rank and heavy. Summer showers often hasten maturity, while continued wet weather usually delays it SECOND During the past six years, the earliest fall frost to do serious damage to the seed crop came on September seventeenth. Although there have been seasons when the first fall frost did. not come until October. The temperature is usually close to freezing about the seventeenth of September. In order to be reasonably safe we should try to have our crops mature and cut by that time. seventeenth is THIRD From August first to September FORTY-EIGHT DAYS. That is, we have forty-eigJUST days until we should expect frost or weather mighty close to it. Now we can figure the maturity of your crop this way. If it is set on now, it should be ripe before September seventeenth. EF IT IS SET ON BY AUGUST TENTH it has a chance to he ripe by September seventeenth but it is likely to take a few days longer especially if your field is wet or youir alfalfa is rank. , ht Effects Of The Drouth Effects of the dry hot weather can be seen most anywhere now. A number of field are burned white and their chances to produce a crop this year are practically gone. Other second cut- ting fields have been held back by the drouth and no doubt in- jured considerably. On the other hand the dry weather has apparently helped grow without irrigation after cutWhere these fields were cultivated between crops, many of ting. them look quite promising. Most fields however, would have been improved by irrigation just as they got well budded. Growers who were able to irrigate at that time have very promising crops some crops that started to now. Similiaily, growers who got to irrigate their first cutting far more promising crops than those who did not. Several fields that usually produce good yields on the first catting with a single irrigation, are either burnt up or looking rather poor now. seed early in July have Grasshoppers Grasshopper damage is beginning to show now. It seems that little hoppers are still hatching, too. Although many crops are getting along to where the hoppers may not hurt them much during the remainder of the season, fanners should remember that back in 1922 we had a crop of them about like this year and then in 1923 we had lots of them. There are a few hoppers here and there, dying from parasites or disease, but they are really few and far between. We have seen only two or three of the parasite flies up to date this season. It looks as if we will have to kill thte grasshoppers off this year before they deposit their eggs or else we can EXPECT TO We can be justly proud of our good Uintah. Basin alfalfa because it is clean, and1 good, but we really should not raise the oth- er at all. , The season is now far enough along that seed growers can begin to tell not only whether they are going to have a crop or not, bnt also whether their crop is going to be clean high pnrity seed or not. It is time to look your fields over for weeds, sweet clover, etc., and get cleaned np so that all the seed you have will be good seed that you can be proud of. The drouth has, kept the weeds down in some fields. In others late irrigation has brought them along just as last summers rains did. GREEN FOXTAIL, WILD MILLET or PIGEON GRASS, whichever yon prefer to call it, is coming strong in many fields where there is sufficient moisture. Seed containing this grass seed has to be threshed carefully. Then when it is cleaned like good seed the screenings and second runs are Usually worthless and the first run seed is not ready for market until it is cleaned., over special machinery. On this second cleaning it has to stand another heavy shrinkage and even after that it may not he first class. It is usually impossible to get out all the grass seed. We would recommend that you go over your field and locate the patches of milleitt, then mow them out and if the seed is ripe, burn the stuff. If yon will examine an ordinary sized head of this grass you will find that it contains as many seeds as you can expect to find in Several alfalfa bum. Then you will want to pull or cut out the rest of the wild millett because a head here and there is enough to hurt a crop of alfalfa seed that may be very fine otherwise. RESIN WEED is coming into bloom now. It can usually be cleaned out of alfalfa fairly well, but if let mature weed this you seed your field will soon be full of it ana it will choke out your alfalfa. A man can pull or cut a lot of this weed in a day. SWEET CLOVER is a weed in alfalfa seed. It does not pay anyone to raise mixed seed. Seed growers who mean to raise really good seed do not have to be told to get rid of cloves or cut the whole business for hay. LARGE DODDER has not shown up much as cant yet. If cut it out clean, better let it get a good start then cut you the field for hay before the dodder seeds mature. POVERTY WEED and SUNFLOWERS produce some seeds that cannot be cleaned out. The best nsually way to get them out is in the field. Dont you think it will be wise for seed; growers to break up their weedy fields this fall and farm them to other crops for a few yearn to get rid of the weeds! Plowing under whatever growth is on them will help the land too. Market Prospects Ejwy one of us is interested in what seed will be worth this fall. It is fax too early to (estimate thb 1928 alfalfa seed crop, let At the same time jL0 seed FwS? is still growers should quite a lot of 1927 alfalfa seed in the ft is possible that a considerable part of this may Lj eTS be planted this summer and thus gotten out of the but it is al possible that it may be on thb market this fall way, in competition with the 1928 crop. to toe 1828 crop is at all rinJUl0ES the MARKET FOR WEEDY SEED, WILL BE VERY POOR Weeds X Duchesne CL secdesnesially The U. B. I. C. Exhibits HAVE SWABMS OF THEM IN 1829. Almost every year the basin produces more trashy alfalfa seed or mixed alfalfa seed and sweet clover than can be sold. Even if it is sold, thie price to the grower is small when we recall it, it has to be sold cheap or not at all. The fellow who grows it does not make anything and the dealer who buys it and sells it again does not make anything either. mffi. ( . Att 9 19- - to have you exhibit samples of and .7eSetaW other products. The folks in wml coasider ft a favor if you will bring on August 7. That will give them a better wt0r? 5blts your stuff to good advantage. PoppsiEtdl Seed Roosevelt Fort CoMpsuniy Vernal |